#preventive medicine

• Anavaccine — An immunizing biological preparation (vaccine) composed of a purified and absorbed toxoid, used to stimulate the production of specific antibodies in the organism without triggering symptoms of the disease. This structural type of vaccine retains its antigenic capacity intact while completely losing its initial pathogenicity and toxic power through controlled chemical or thermal treatment.
• Anophelism — The presence, density, and distribution of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles in a specific geographical region, evaluated from an ecological and epidemiological standpoint. In preventive medicine, the term is used to describe the potential for malaria transmission within an area, analyzing the structural correlation between the biological vector density and the climatic or environmental conditions favoring larval proliferation.
• Anticarcinogenic — Preventing the onset, development, or progression of cancer by annihilating carcinogenic or mutagenic agents; a chemical substance, antioxidant food, or biological compound capable of protecting cellular DNA structure against malignant degradation. In diets and preventive medicine, it indicates the property of certain substances (such as vitamins C and E, selenium, or polyphenols) to neutralize free radicals.
• Self-examination — An examination that someone performs on their own person; a preventive clinical investigation carried out individually (such as palpation) or an inner critical analysis of one's own thoughts, knowledge, behaviors, and states of consciousness.
• To self-examine — To inspect, analyze, or investigate oneself from a physical, medical, intellectual, or spiritual point of view; to subject one's own body, behavior, thoughts, or knowledge to a critical and rigorous examination, usually for preventive or corrective purposes.
• Self-examination — The act of self-examining and its result; a methodical process through which an individual investigates their own body for the purpose of preventing medical conditions or critically analyzes their emotional states, thoughts, and knowledge.